Attachment for a garment hanger



March 28, 1961 H. T. GARRISON ATTACHMENT FOR A GARMENT HANGER Filed June6, 1958 IN VENTOR HOWARDT.GARRI5ON BY A W ,Wfi ATTORNEYS Howard T.Garrison, 444 Lakewood Circle, Virginia Beach, Va.

Filed June 6, 1958, Ser. No. 740,229

1 Claim. (Cl. 223-88) The present invention relates to a garment hangerand more in particular to an attachment for the usual wire coat hanger,said attachment to be used for hanging trousers and skirts.

Heretofore many attachments have been devised to permit the moresatisfactory storage of clothing on the usual wire coat hanger. Thesedevices have found extensive use in the storage of clothing, thetrousers usually being passed over the horizontal bar and many methodshave been tried to prevent the trousers or skirts from taking a creasewhere they are draped over this bar. Many of these prior devices haveconsisted of a sharpened prong which is forced through the clothing tosuspend the same from the coat hanger. This has proven unsatisfactorybecause it damages the garment. Still other devices have beenattachments that hang on the sloping part of the coat hanger and thesedevices have proven unsatisfactory because of the difficulty inretaining them in position.

The present invention overcomes these difficulties by providing meansfor suspending the trousers or skirts without passing the same over thebar.

It is an object of this invention to provide a clip which may be appliedto the usual wire coat hanger to allow the same to be used in thestorage of skirts and trousers.

It is also an object of this invention to provide a clip that may beapplied to a coat hanger wherein the combination may be used to supporta garment suspended from the clip either by the waist band or the cuff.

It is still another object of this invention to provide a clip that maybe suspended from a wire coat hanger so as to support a pair of trousersfrom the cuff and to retain the same in such a manner that the trousersor skirt will not sag between the clips.

The various features of novelty which characterize this invention arepointed out with particularity in the claim annexed to and forming partof this specification. For a better understanding of the inventionhowever, its advantages and specific objects obtained by its use,reference should be had to the accompanying drawings and descriptivematter in which have been illustrated and described the preferredembodiment of this invention.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary view, showing the method of using the clip ofthe present invention for hanging trousers from a wire hanger.

Fig. 2 is an end view of Figure 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the clip without the hanger.

In Figure 1 has been illustrated a desirable embodiment of the presentinvention comprising a pair of wire clips 10, attached to the horizontalportion 11 of a coat hanger 9, in the manner illustrated. These clipsfirmly grip the horizontal portion 11 in such a manner as to hold thesame in position on this horizontal portion. Each clip 10, shown indetail in Fig. 5 consists of rates Patent 0 Fatented Mar. 28, 1961 anend portion of a generally double-U shape having a central inverted U,12, and an upright U-shaped portion 13 on each side thereof. These twoend portions are attached together by means of the horizontal barportion 14, 14. 1

In assembling this device two of these clips 10, 10 are placed on thecross bar 11 as shown in Fig. 1, the central inverted U-shaped portion12 firmly gripping the central bar 11, as shown in Fig. 3. Thehorizontal body portion 14, 14 lies parallel to and spaced from thehorizontal portion 11 of the coat hanger. The cufis 15, 15 of a pair oftrousers are hung one on each side of the clip 10 as shown in Fig. 4, sothat the clips may be separated and the cuff drawn tight as shown inFig. 1. This permits the hanging of a pair of trousers from a wire coathanger without folding the same over the bar and it is thereforeimpossible for the garment to acquire a crease due to being hung instorage. A skirt may be suspended in the same manner, the waist band oneach side of the skirt being hung from the clip in a manner similar tothat described above for hanging a pair of trousers.

The cuff on a pair of trousers is a return portion of the trouser leg.The waist band on a skirt is a return portion of the skirt top and thisterm is so used in the claims.

While in the above description of a preferred embodiment of thisinvention a wire clip is described, it is to be noted that the inventionis not limited to a wire clip, as the clip may be made of sheet metal,plastic or reinforced fiber board as desired. The hanger is incidentalto the clip and any type of hanger having a bar or hori-' zontal portionbetween two sloping portions may be used.

While in accordance with the provisions of the statutes the best form ofembodiment of this invention has been illustrated and described, it willbe apparent to those skilled in the art that changes may be made in theform of the apparatus without departing from the spirit of thisinvention as set forth in the appended claim, and that in some casescertain features of this invention may be I used to advantage withoutthe corresponding use of other features, and that this invention is onlylimited by the claim attached hereto, wherein:

What is claimed is:

The combination of a garment hanger having a horizontal rod-shapedmember supported by and between two sloping members and a pair ofsubstantially similar spaced wire clips disengageably mounted on saidhorizontal rod-shaped member, each clip comprising two generallyparallel central elements, said elements having at their ends twoadjacent U-shaped portions, the tops of the intermediate arms of each ofsaid adjacent U-shaped portions being joined to form an invertedU-shaped portion between said U-shaped portions, the space between saidjoined arms being narrower at the juncture thereof than the diameter ofsaid horizontal rod-shaped member, said joined arms receiving infrictional engagement the horizontal rod-shaped member of said garmenthanger, said wire clips being engageable on said garment hanger atvarious points along the length of said horizontal rod-shaped member toaccommodate garments having various widths, said clips being adapted toreceive and retain the turned over portions of said garments.

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